Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand
Ayn Randwas a Russian-born American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. She is known for her two best-selling novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and for developing a philosophical system she called Objectivism. Educated in Russia, she moved to the United States in 1926. She had a play produced on Broadway in 1935–1936. After two early novels that were initially unsuccessful in America, she achieved fame with her 1943 novel, The Fountainhead...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth2 February 1905
CitySaint Petersburg, Russia
CountryRussian Federation
My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists - and in a single choice: to live.
Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self-enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another's values.
Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, that neither love nor fame nor cash is a value if obtained by fraud.
Whoever defends his own rights defends the rights of all.
Self-esteem is reliance on ones power to think.
Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary.
Men prosper or fail, survive or perish in proportion to the degree of their rationality.
A man of independent judgment is a man of profound self-esteem.
The more neurotic and evasive a person is, the shorter the range of his interests.
Romantic art is always stylized: the better the art, the cleaner and more attractive and intelligent the stylization.
When you have civilized men fighting savages, you support the civilized men, no matter who they are.
Ordinary human concern for human distress does not manifest itself ordinarily in the form of a gun aimed at the wallets and earnings of one's neighbors.
While, politically, a mixed economy preserves the semblance of an organized society with a semblance of law and order, economically it is the equivalent of the chaos that had ruled China for centuries: a chaos of robber gangs looting-and draining-the productive elements of the country.